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Our virtual library is an online repository of all of the reports, papers, and briefings that IST has produced, as well as works that have influenced our thinking.

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TechnologIST Talks: Looking Back and Looking Ahead: Deep Dive on the New Cybersecurity Executive Order

Carole House, Megan Stifel, and Steve Kelly

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TechnologIST Talks: The Offense-Defense Balance

Philip Reiner and Heather Adkins

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Reports

The Generative Identity Initiative: Exploring Generative AI’s Impact on Cognition, Society, and the Future

Gabrielle Tran, Eric Davis

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TechnologIST Talks: A Transatlantic Perspective on Quantum Tech

Megan Stifel and Markus Pflitsch

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TechnologIST Talks: The Future is Quantum

Megan Stifel and Stefan Leichenauer

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Reports

Navigating AI Compliance, Part 1: Tracing Failure Patterns in History

Mariami Tkeshelashvili, Tiffany Saade

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TechnologIST Talks: The Cleantech Boom

Steve Kelly and Dr. Alex Gagnon

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Testimony: Held for Ransom: How Ransomware Endangers Our Financial System

Megan Stifel

SUMMARY

On April 16, 2024, Chief Strategy Officer Megan Stifel testified before the House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions for a hearing entitled, “Held for Ransom: How Ransomware Endangers Our Financial System.”

In her testimony, she focuses on three ways to reduce the risk and impacts of ransomware on the financial services sector.

  1. Financial sector resilience is essential to maintaining our role as the world’s financial leader.
  2. We must ensure that the federal, state, and local government entities that underpin our role as the world’s financial leader have adequate resources to investigate abuse of our services.
  3. The financial services sector has tremendous reach and can play an even greater role in helping raise our collective defenses.

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